Properties in new unauthorised colonies and fresh constructions in illegal colonies awaiting regularisation by the government will be demolished, the Delhi cabinet decided Monday.
The cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit also warned the officials who allow the unauthorised colonies to come up that from now on deputy commissioners of revenue department and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, deputy commissioner of police and police station house Officer of the area concerned will also not be spared.
'We have taken special permission from the lieutenant governor (LG) office to punish these erring officials. Regularisation of around 1,639 unauthorised colonies is under consideration of the government, but no new constructions will be allowed in these areas too, the violation of which will result in demolition,' Revenue Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan told reporters.
The cabinet decision came after it came to the government's notice that unauthorised colonies are coming up in large numbers. The government has also taken note of recent cases of misuse of agricultural land in Narela and other areas, where some government officials in nexus with builders had sold the plots to some buyers.
'The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has in Narela registered a first information report (FIR) against some 12 builders and government officials for selling plots to unsuspecting buyers,' Chauhan said.
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